Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much money the West Essex Clinical Commission Group allocates to mental health services; and what this figure is as a proportion of that Group's total budget.
Information on clinical commissioning group (CCG) funding is available in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health Dashboard, which is published by NHS England and available at the following link:
www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/taskforce/imp/mh-dashboard/
For the 2017/18 financial year, the West Essex CCG spent £43.8 million on mental health services in 2017/18. This figure represents 11.2% of its base funding allocation.